How much have/will you spend and sunday to friday challenge - 29th april

lynsayjane

good morning dfw's!!! this'll be a very quick post as I'm working at 12 today and need to get brekkie/lunch before I go!

well last week I went way off budget due to a trip to bnq with my dad, all 'essential' type stuff for finishing my house though...meh, so unsurprisingly I'm in the red again :mad: am not going to make a proper target on here for this week as my brain is processing a new way of budgetting my finances to help me stick to my budgets better and hopefully not overspend.... I'm planning on asking all you lovely peeps advice when It forms into a definate plan so you'll all hear about it!

here's last weeks totals

lynsayjane :eek:
rachelmk £20 £18.50
redsquirrel80 £10
pap £13.80 £12.52
sans £50 £27.96
ciara2712 £10 £7.29
f85 £12 £10.50
pixie1 £20
prophecy_grrl £95 £69.77
babes21 £50 £40.93
fac73 £30
chunky79 £45
savvykaz £30 £5.70
vixtress £25
gemmzie £10
bobblehat £20 £68.85
softstuff $20
skintcatt £20
em1982 £60 £39.02
beemuzed £10

'Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anythng else.

The reason the challenge is up to Friday is that I like to give myself a day off the counting and let my hair down a bit'


moozie if your spying we miss you terribly, your much better at guiding the troups than I am.....told you before I'm the bad influence! :rotfl: but I'll keep your challenge rolling along until you get back. big big big hugs to you from all of us xxxx

now lets see some totals from you guys n gals and I want plenty of green or I'll get angry....and you won't like me when I'm angry

f85

Morning LJ and all to follow :hello:

I made my budget for the second week in a row, £1.50 under at £10.50 :money:
This week my target is going to be £65 to include post-exam celebrations on Tuesday :beer:, hair-cut, a present for my friends new puppy who we're going to see later this afternoon and a new house gift for another friend.

Spends today so far: £0.46 on a peanut kit-kat chunky!

Will be spending later on puppy toys so I'll update with my total tonight.

Edit: today's other planned spends bought by OH so I stay at 0.46 today.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everybody!

F

jazzyjustlaw

I want to join. I hope to spend less than £20.00 this week.

For me this is for me to spend on myself on whatever I want.

Good luck everyone.

babes21

Hello everyone

This week i managed to spend £40.93 so i successfully reached my target, with change left over :j

This week i'd like to aim for £45 please, see how i get on with that.

bobble_hat

I completely obliterated my target, in the wrong direction

The week began full of good intentions but rapidly deteriorated. My spends are as follows.

Bacon sandwich and latte - £1.65
Smart Card (Boots scales) top-up £2
Netball subs - £3
Tissues, milk and bread roll £1.99
Pain au chocolat and Percy Pigs - £1.40
Pint of Fosters £2.60 (!)
Chip Butty £1.20
Bus fare £2.80
Chinese takeout - £9.30
Tissues - £0.45
Sympathy card £1.85
Pamper items for hugely pregnant, bored lil’ sister - £16.61
Pizza - £5
Lunch with friend - £19
Adds up to a whopping £68.85 !!! Please mark me in red Lynsayjane


On the plus side, this was all actual cash and no credit, plus my ticket to NZ/OZ quite a bit less than the £1,070 I'd budgeted for, coming in at - £849.40. Paid with actual funds, not credit.

I'm going to allow myself £30 this week as I've got a flower festival to attend at the weekend.

Purpleroses

afternoon!
lovely day again! i spent £7.29 this week. will make it £5 this week need to start saving for my holidays!

slowlyfading

Wasn't on it last week, but this week's target is £30 and its a NSD for me today!
Nicola x

WelshWoofer

My budget for last week was £20 and I managed to spend £18.50! Would have been a fiver less if I hadn't caved in and succumbed to a bottle of wine!
I can be green this week :j

I'll be going for £20 again and hoping for the best.

R

postingalwaysposting

afternoon lynsayjane.... my budget last week was £13.80 and i spent £12.52 :T now this week my budget will be £54.00 now this sounds a lot but i have to pay for all my ebay parcels that are ending throughout this week (as i am hoping most will pay through paypal) so technically my me budget is far less... anyways today i have had my hair trimmed/cut so that was £5 and i also went packed lunch shoppping and spent £4.50 but that did include a 29p and a 43p bar of chocolate for me and mum :rotfl:

aah

I was going to try for an NS week, but then remembered that its my turn to pay the pocket money tomorrow, so I'm going for £20.00.

And I am going to keep a record. As I won't be spending anything, bar the pocket money it should be easy :rolleyes:

LookingAhead

Hi there. Today I have spent £50.62 on main grocery shop but this included three quite big non food items (one of which was me paying BF back £10 I owed for petrol) so it could have been worse. Hopefully next week will be much lower and the following few weeks.

I had a nsd yesterday and haven't spent on anything else since Sainsburys.

Not joining in the challenge this week....just had the washing machine die today. That will steamroller any budget I would have set. :rotfl: